A 14-year-old boy who was sentenced as an adult to 25 years in prison on a charge of conspiracy to commit murder will get a hearing that could send his case back to juvenile courts.

The Indianapolis Star reports the Indiana Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the case Oct. 30.

The boy was 12 when he was sentenced in 2010. Attorney Monica Foster says he wasn't competent to stand trial as an adult because of his age and that attorneys weren't given enough time to prepare arguments to try him as a juvenile.

The youth and a then-15-year-old friend were convicted in the April 2010 fatal shooting of the friend's stepfather, Phil Danner.